Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:50:59 -0400 From: Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org> To: Maxim Khitrov <mkhitrov@gmail.com> Cc: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ZFS or UFS for 4TB hardware RAID6? Message-ID: <C6810863.EEE0%fsb@thefsb.org> In-Reply-To: <26ddd1750907131223k9e20142n1fbc41e16d82bf87@mail.gmail.com>
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On 7/13/09 3:23 PM, "Maxim Khitrov" <mkhitrov@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Richard Mahlerwein<mahlerrd@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> I guess the last question I'll ask (as any more may uncover my ignorance) is >> if you need to use hardware RAID at all? It seems both UFS2 and ZFS can do >> software RAID which seems to be quite reasonable with respect to performance >> and in many ways seems to be more robust since it is a bit more portable (no >> specialized hardware). > > I've thought about this one a lot. In my case, the hard drives are in > a separate enclosure from the server and the two had to be connected > via SAS cables. The 9690SA-8E card was the best choice I could find > for accessing an external SAS enclosure with support for 8 drives. > > I could configure it in JBOD mode and then use software to create a > RAID array. In fact, I will likely do this to compare performance of a > hardware vs. software RAID5 solution. if you do, please share any insights that come of it here.
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